| Cacique Caribe | 03 Oct 2015 6:47 p.m. PST |
Imagine yourself living in a Post Apocalyptic Earth and meeting distant cousins that looked like these:
link Or perhaps looking more like a Beluga with fingers? Or cephalopod-like, but with some cartilage instead of a full skeleton? Aside from hover-chairs like these next ones, what else do you think they would need to move about in our Earth gravity? TMP link link link link Do you think maybe a breathing device of some sort? Or even a fully-encased bubble with clamps for arms, to avoid injury from our air pressure? Dan
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 ochoin  | 03 Oct 2015 6:56 p.m. PST |
Robert Heinlein wrote a short story called, "We Also Walk Dogs" in which a near future 'can-do' company is given the job of arranging for high & low gravity aliens to meet on earth in the comfort of the gravitational fields they are used to. Not a lot of detail but the solutions offered are intriguing. |
| Cacique Caribe | 03 Oct 2015 7:44 p.m. PST |
This is weird, but interesting:
link Dan |
| phssthpok | 03 Oct 2015 8:23 p.m. PST |
Read "The Integral Trees" and "The Smoke Ring" by Larry Niven. We keep the legs they just evolve into another pair of arms and hands. |
| War Monkey | 03 Oct 2015 9:25 p.m. PST |
We keep the legs they just evolve into another pair of arms and hands. We become Monkeys?  |
| Cacique Caribe | 03 Oct 2015 10:07 p.m. PST |
Lol. Yes. We become WAR Monkeys! Check out the image I just found:
link Looks like he/she/it doesn't need anything other that the mind to get things done. Dan |
| Bashytubits | 03 Oct 2015 11:46 p.m. PST |
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| Outlaw Tor | 04 Oct 2015 1:58 a.m. PST |
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| GhostofRebecaBlack | 04 Oct 2015 5:18 a.m. PST |
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| Zargon | 04 Oct 2015 5:45 a.m. PST |
I see these everyday the Populous Indiginai here are big round sleek and needing all forms of gravitational support to get around, and that's just the government workers, talk about evolving. I feel like long pig around them ;/
You want to see evolution in progress its happening right here where I live, one correlation to 'super sizing and body weakening is a high drop in higher brain function too.
Cheers see ya through the window, nice topic Caribe |
| capncarp | 04 Oct 2015 6:41 a.m. PST |
GhostofRebecaBlack: Smokey has first dibs on that/those. Things get real _sparse_ in the DH, 'lessen one of the guards takes a "shine" to ya! |
| Generalstoner49 | 04 Oct 2015 7:00 a.m. PST |
I am not liking it. In all the pictures we evolve and lose our junk! |
| CorroPredo | 04 Oct 2015 8:34 a.m. PST |
I've run across several people who already look like the 50,000 year image…… |
| Cacique Caribe | 04 Oct 2015 12:01 p.m. PST |
Some people are evolving their anatomy faster than others.
I guess they no longer have to worry about using their legs. Dan |
| Zephyr1 | 04 Oct 2015 2:14 p.m. PST |
^^ Though they'd still steal your bicycle, just on principle… ;-) |
| The Beast Rampant | 04 Oct 2015 2:21 p.m. PST |
"Anatomy of an Urban Thug" That's the future- The Jetsons told me so. |
| Lion in the Stars | 05 Oct 2015 7:48 a.m. PST |
I'd honestly expect prehensile feet on long-term low-gee populations. |
has a tip to help with your paint storage (and recognition).
